We are building new offerings for Alexa to enable the dream of the smart, connected home. This is an opportunity to lead a critical Alexa Smart Home engineering team, designing and building innovative voice-driven experiences for interacting with smart home devices. You'll get to come up with new experiences, launch, and quickly iterate on feedback through continuous customer delivery. Your team will be responsible for the invention of disruptive technologies designed to simplify consumer customers' lives. The problem space spans IoT-scale (billions of devices) cloud services and low-latency, secure, and reliable, home networks. Your team’s work will span Alexa skills, voice user interfaces, AWS technology, and a rapidly-growing ecosystem of IoT devices. We have a team full of exceptional engineers, great work-life balance, and a culture of supporting each other to succeed as a team. You will also have the satisfaction of working on a product your friends and family can relate to, and want
· Bachelor of Science degree in an engineering discipline · 5+ years of hands-on software development experience · 2+ years experience managing software engineering team, especially recruiting and growing software development engineers · Knowledge of object-oriented programming concepts and patterns, service oriented architecture and distributed system design· Masters of Science or PhD in an engineering discipline · 10 years of software development experience, with at least 3 years leading systems architecture and software design · 5 years of experience managing teams of engineers through multiple